Hinderaker at lunch today (impotently) tries to create a bitterly myopic reality distortion bubble.

The simple enforcement of federal law… is about the opposite of what is happening here.

We learned this morning that Kristi Noem sent a letter telling Hegseth to have the military commit lawless arrests — and/or threaten the same.

This is no nullification.

This is a Governor — using his police power to protect all Californians.

Damn John.

Stop flatulating.

To be certain, Stephen Miller — and Tangerine 2.0 loons more broadly, have been looking for a way to lawlessly impose supposed martial law on blue states, but only blue ones. They think LA gives them that opening. The US Supreme Court will — in a few months — tell them that we are a civil nation. We will not countenance… bully-despotic moves against supposed opponents — by 1600 Penn.

So, now I will quote a bit of last night’s complaint directly — it sets out the audacity, and majesty of the vision our Founders had. And it does so. . . by offering humility rather than hubris — in the grants to the federal government (see, Amend. No. Ten):

…One of the cornerstones of our Nation and our democracy is that our people are governed by civil, not military, rule. The Founders enshrined these principles in our Constitution — that a government should be accountable to its people, guided by the rule of law, and one of civil authority, not military rule….

President Trump has repeatedly [lawlessly] invoked emergency powers to exceed the bounds of lawful executive authority….

[M]embers of the public gathered in protest at the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse. This building, located at 255 E. Temple St., Los Angeles, CA 90012, includes a detention facility known as “B-18.” On information and belief, protestors gathered at this location based on reports that individuals who were detained during the ICE operations were being held there. Protesters also gathered at other locations where ICE operations were reportedly happening, including in the City of Paramount, a city in Los Angeles County.

While not unified in their views or tactics, most protesters seem to have gathered to express their opposition to the manner in which the Trump Administration has executed its immigration agenda and to express solidarity with and concern for the individuals and families most directly impacted by the enforcement actions taking place in their community.

During the protests, Service Employees International Union California leader David Huerta was injured in the midst of interactions with federal agents. He was arrested, treated at a nearby hospital, and then detained. Federal authorities have alleged that Mr. Huerta was obstructing federal agents’ access to a worksite where they were executing a warrant, while in contrast, Union representatives have reported that Mr. Huerta was detained while exercising his First Amendment right to observe and document law enforcement activity. The [ICE] arrest of Mr. Huerta, who remains detained as of the date of filing, led to further upset in the community….

Most of those involved in protesting have been exercising their rights under the First Amendment in a peaceful, non-violent, and legally compliant manner. There have no doubt been exceptions. News reports have shown some individuals in the midst of these protests breaking the law and acting violently, for example by throwing objects at law enforcement officers and damaging property, including by setting fires. State and local law enforcement agencies have responded to such actions, and Governor Newsom and other state and local officials have unequivocally condemned such conduct and called for the prosecution of such law breaking.

At no point in the past… days has there been a rebellion or an insurrection….

Now you know — Trump cannot use his own violations of US immigration law and treaties as a basis for claiming an “insurrection” or rebellion. Damn — that’s straight out of Putin’s playbook.

And so, the overnight deploying up to 700 US Marines — deep into the civilian cities, in the state where they are decamped — without the Governor’s assent… is a very bad look. An Unconstitutional one. This is not enforcing Brown v. Board, against Geo. Wallace in 1963. It simply is… not. The people have a right to protest Trump’s lawlessness, in rolling ICE on union leaders and peaceable protesters. Onward.

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We now have the full 22 plus page complaint at law linked as a PDF here, but it is barely after lunch time now — on the West Coast, and it was all just drafted… overnight. It opens majestically:

…One of the cornerstones of our Nation and our democracy is that our people are governed by civil, not military, rule. The Founders enshrined these principles in our Constitution — that a government should be accountable to its people, guided by the rule of law, and one of civil authority, not military rule….

So it may be a moment to hit the clerk’s virtual window. Here are the broad strokes of it:

…In a lawsuit being filed today, Attorney General Bonta and Governor Newsom will ask the court to hold that the President and Department of Defense’s orders federalizing the California National Guard are unlawful, arguing that:

The federalization of the California National Guard deprives California of resources to protect itself and its citizens, and of critical responders in the event of a state emergency.

10 USC § 12406 requires that the Governor consent to federalization of the National Guard, which Governor Newsom was not given the opportunity to do prior to their deployment.

The President’s unlawful order infringes on Governor Newsom’s role as Commander-in-Chief of the California National Guard and violates the state’s sovereign right to control and have available its National Guard in the absence of a lawful invocation of federal power….

Onward — to run circles around this Tangerine dotard.

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In fact, Governor Newsom and Mayor Bass specifically told Tangerine NOT to roll up. But — plainly, he is trying to engineer a crisis to distract from all his other failures to lead effectively. And to whip up the frenzy, in his hater-base.

The people (of LA, and elsewhere) have a right to complain, when many are abducted by Tangerine 2.0 forces, without any due process at all. [The 14^th Amendment uses the term “persons“, NOT “citizens” — and so, Stephen Miller vacuously lies, here. All “persons” on US soil are entitled to due process. With or without… papers.]

In any event, here’s the latest on it all:

…Immigration protests in California and President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to quell them have set up a clash between the president and foe California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), who confirmed Monday that the state will sue the federal government over the escalation.

Thousands of protesters were in L.A.’s streets Sunday in response to the National Guard deployment, at one point blocking a freeway and setting self-driving cars ablaze. Law enforcement used tear gas, rubber bullets and flash-bangs to control the crowd, The Associated Press reported. As police declared protests in the city to be an unlawful assembly, crowds broke up Sunday evening.

It was the third day of protests after workplace raids began Friday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement….

“Looking really bad in L.A. BRING IN THE TROOPS!!!” Trump wrote in a post on his social platform, Truth Social, shortly after midnight [Sunday]….

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday morning in a social media post that the state would sue the federal government over Trump’s deployment of National Guard.

The governor said Trump “illegally acted to federalize the National Guard,” adding the order he signed applies nationwide.

“We’re suing him,” Newsom said….

[UPDATED: 2 PM EDT] President Donald Trump said Monday he thinks it would be a “great thing” if border czar Tom Homan arrests Gov. Gavin Newsom.

“I would do it if I were Tom. I think it’s great,” Trump said as he arrived at the White House from Camp David. “Gavin likes the publicity, but I think it would be a great thing….”

What a putz — but, as ever, onward, resolutely. The Abrego Garcia matter will not result in a Trump win, down in Nashville — it will now… backfire. That is Condor’s firm prediction. Out.

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